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Professor Freddy Boey (Chinese: 梅彦昌) is Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He assumed these positions on 1 July 2011.〔(NTU President to step down ) ''The Straits Times, 19 October 2010''〕〔(NTU's new President and Provost to lead the way in transforming NTU into a world-class university that integrates education, research and innovation ) ''News release, 4 July 2011''〕 Prior to these appointments, he was the Chair of NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering from 2005 to 2010.〔(Education, research and innovation come together in him: Professor Freddy Boey )〕 A Professor of Materials Engineering, Boey graduated from Monash University, Australia, with a First Class Honours degree in Materials Engineering in 1980. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry and Engineering in 1987 from the National University of Singapore.〔(NTU academic profile – Boey Yin Chiang, Freddy )〕〔(Great teachers, researchers, campus life... ) ''The Straits Times, 2 November 2011''〕 ==Research and innovation== Boey’s research areas are in functional biomaterials for medical devices, nanomaterials and nanostructures for cell regeneration, sensing and energy storage.〔 A keen inventor, he has filed 25 original patents with NTU, the majority of which have been licensed.〔〔 He founded several companies to patent and license his creations, such as a surgical tissue retractor which was licensed to Insightra Medical Inc., Irvine, California, and sold in the United States, India, Japan and Europe.〔(First joint venture medical device released by NTU and Insightra Medical Inc. ) ''Medical News Today, 18 October 2007''〕 Boey’s other inventions include a fully biodegradable peripheral cardiovascular stent,〔(Plugging holes in hearts – It’s an open-and-shut case ) ''The Straits Times, 1 January 2011''〕〔(MSE research on soluble heart stents gets S$10m boost ) ''MSE in the News, 20 June 2008''〕 micropumps for thermal management solutions in consumer electronic gadgets, microfluidic and biomedical devices〔(NTU researchers’ multiple drug-eluting biodegradable stent and frictionless micro-pump innovation featured on New Frontiers ) ''Channel I, 30 June 2004''〕〔(Frictionless micro-pump )〕 a coronary stent with drug release capability,〔(Biodegradable stents with drug delivery )〕 a hernia mesh〔(Dynamic professors with the golden touch ) ''The Straits Times, 11 December 2010''〕 and cardiac peptides for treating heart diseases.〔(NTU’s poster boy for biomedical inventions ) ''The Straits Times, 22 January 2011''〕 His innovations have garnered him numerous investment funding and research grants.〔 Among the companies Boey founded are Amaranth Medical Inc, Adcomp Technology Pte Ltd and Electroactiv Ltd.〔 Boey also teamed up with the renowned Mayo Clinic to develop implants for the controlled release of cardiac peptides specially designed to treat heart diseases, through a joint start-up, CardioRev Pte Ltd. This company won early-stage funding under SPRING Singapore’s Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme.〔(TECS Grant Call Recipients ) ''SPRING Singapore''〕 Boey has published 344 top journal papers with a citation of 7436 and h-index of 44.〔 He won about S$36 million in competitive research grants between 2008 and 2011, including a S$10 million individual National Research Foundation (NRF) Competitive Research Programme grant for his work on fully biodegradable cardiovascular implants,〔(NTU wins 3 out of 4 competitive research programme grants – Researchers awarded up to $30 million from National Research Foundation ) ''News release, 20 June 2008''〕〔(Thick skin helped prof sell his stent ) ''The Straits Times, 30 August 2008''〕 a S$20 million NRF Technion-Singapore grant for his research in nanomedicine for cardiovascular diseases〔(NTU 2008 Research Report )〕 and a S$1.25 million grant from the NRF Translational Flagship Project for his research to make cataract surgery safer.〔(Eye Diseases – Translational Research Innovations in Ocular Surgery (TRIOS) )〕〔(Safer cataract surgery with nanotechnology )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freddy Boey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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